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Nooooo! "valgrind memory leak". Aaargh. Valgrind (memcheck) is not just a leak detection tool. Leak detection is so unimportant that it isn't even turned on by

• nynrathod 11mo ago
  Thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t actually know all the details about how Valgrind works under the hood just that it does memory checking. I'll definitely read up more on it. If you have any good resources or tips, I'd appreciate your suggestions!
  • paulf38 10mo ago
    I wrote a series of articles for ACCU overload back around 2012 to 2013. This was in 6 parts. Introduction https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/108/floyd_1930/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/108/floyd_1930/ Basic memcheck https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/109/floyd_1913/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/109/floyd_1913/ Advanced memcheck https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/110/floyd_1905/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/110/floyd_1905/ Cachegrind and Callgrind https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/111/floyd_1886/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/111/floyd_1886/ Massif https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/112/floyd_1884/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/20/112/floyd_1884/ Helgrind and DRD https://accu.org/journals/overload/21/114/floyd_1867/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/21/114/floyd_1867/ More recently I wrote another one DHAT https://accu.org/journals/overload/33/185/floyd/ https://accu.org/journals/overload/33/185/floyd/ The videos on YouTube are mostly crap. Here are a couple of good ones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDiEe9hxC4&lc=UgwLVU1SO1BUzsiddRd4AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDiEe9hxC4&lc=UgwLVU1SO1BUz... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6AN0ks2q0A&lc=UgwQSQzkCtMROcB7ST94AaABAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6AN0ks2q0A&lc=UgwQSQzkCtMRO...
    • nynrathod 10mo ago
      THanks for sharing, will take a look surely, as memroy mgmt will be crucial for doolang. And I can see you are valgrind developer?
      • paulf38 10mo ago
        I do most of the Valgrind maintenance these days.